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The empire at home : internal colonies and the end of Britain / James Trafford

Author
Trafford, Tia
Published
London : Pluto Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages)
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Contents
1. The mouth of a shark -- 2. Extractive entanglements across alien territories -- 3. Policing empire after empire -- 4. Homeland warfare and differential racism -- 5. Extinction politics -- 6. The end of Britain.
Summary
Modern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimised slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the strategies of neo-colonial extraction and oppression of subjects abroad. Here, James Trafford develops the notion of internal colonies, arguing that methods and structures used in colonial rule are re-deployed internally in contemporary Britain in order to recreate and solidify imperial power relations. Using examples including housing segregation, targeted surveillance and counter-insurgency techniques used in the fight against terrorism, Trafford reveals Britain's internal colonialism to be a reactive mechanism to retain British sovereignty. As politics appears limited by nationalism and protectionism, The Empire at Home issues a powerful challenge to contemporary politics, demanding that Britain as an imperial structure must end.--
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9781786806741 PDF
1786806746 PDF
9781786806758 EPUB
1786806754 EPUB
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
James Trafford is Reader in Philosophy and Design in the school of Communication Design at the University for the Creative Arts. He is author of Meaning in Dialogue (Springer, 2017), and co-editor of Alien Vectors (Routledge, 2019), and Speculative Aesthetics (MIT Press, 2016).
Endowment Note
The Hastings Libraries Endowment
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